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Nokia Chalks Up 42 5G Contracts

June 6, 2019

Nokia has won 42 commercial 5G deals with operators around the world, 22 with named customers such as T-Mobile, Telia Company and Softbank. Including these agreements, Nokia’s 5G deals, trials and demos total over 100 5G customer engagements to date. Close behind Nokia is Huawei, which has 40 5G contracts, while Ericsson has publicly announced 21 5G contracts, eight of which are now live.

Since the announcement of the 30th commercial 5G contract at the end of March, Nokia has seen an average of one major contract win each week – with a steady pipeline in place for further agreements.

Nokia’s ability to deliver on crucial network transformation goals has been rewarded by the confidence shown in the company from our existing customers. The OEM believes it has a higher share with customers in 5G than it had in 4G.

With its end-to-end portfolio, Nokia can work in partnership with operators to deliver “real 5G”. Nokia’s in house 5G mmWave Small Cells and AirScale BTS provide in-building and outdoor coverage, while its Microwave Anyhaul, Cloud native RAN, antennas, and 5G cloud-native core are part of half of its agreements to date. Beyond its mobile networks portfolio, Nokia has FP4 network processor-based IP routers and PSE- 3 chipset powered optical networking. Customers can use the Nokia Network Services Platform to make it into full-5G-strength software-defined connectivity ‘smart network fabric’ secured by Nokia Security Orchestration, Analytics and Response (Nokia SOAR).

Early rollouts of 5G have been well publicized in North America, Korea and Europe and Nokia is looking forward to announcing its work with operators in emerging nations and regions such as India and Latin America over the coming months.

Nokia President and Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri says: “The pace of 5G progress is accelerating across the globe. We are delivering significant performance increases to operators and the power of Nokia’s end-to-end portfolio is being recognized. In fact, in pretty much every network where Nokia products are deployed, we are the performance leader. Here and now – at the beginning of one of the most radical technology transitions ever with 4G giving way to 5G – this is Nokia’s time to shine.”